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Welcome to Animania, UofM's official ANIME club

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The Animania staff offers you a warm welcome, so please, say "Hi!" to everyone! We'll be waiting...

Con Ja Nai

This is the only ANIME CONVENTION that is not a con! Right here at UofM, you can take part in this huge annual screening festival. Don't forget to dress up as your favorite anime character, because we WILL be judging! We encourage you to see the huge list of anime we showed at last year's screening in November.

WHAT is Animania?!

Since its creation in 1980, Animania has gradually become well-known for being the official University of Michigan's source for Japanese animation and film. Over the years, Animania has evolved and expanded, offering more and more things to experience for those interested in anime.

With the undying passion of serving anime for over 20 years, Animania still continues to grow! Here is a link to our comprehensive FAQ that will help you learn more about our culture.

Screenings

March 13th Screening

Posted by: dark494

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ANIMANIA, The University of Michigan Japanese Animation Film Society

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MARCH 2010 NEWSLETTER

Several important notes to start with:

- Firstly we would like to extend our sincerest apologies for the timeliness of several things for this upcoming March screening. The important thing that I must stress immediately is that there has been a *SCHEDULE CHANGE* for the March screening. We were contacted by the University Events department and were notified that there was another event scheduled on the same day as our screening and that it would be a very loud disturbance, thus we were asked to move our date back. Again, we apologize for the late notice, but the screening is no longer on the 20th of March. See below for the new information.

- Some of you may have noticed, but we have finally restored the new mailing system! We have combined all subscribers from both the old and new mailing lists into one that can be managed easily through this website once again. At the moment, all subscribers are set to receive the plain, standard text-format emails. There are several links at the bottom of the emails that you can use to update your profiles on the website, as well as choose which format of emails you wish to receive (html or text).

MARCH SCREENING (IMPORTANT INFO)

Date: March 13, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Location: Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan, Central Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

SCHEDULE:

(Synopses from Anime News Network)

4:00: Nodame Cantible (Running Series)
Episodes 7-9

At a top music academy in Japan, Shinichi Chiaki's arrogance is matched only by his top-notch piano playing. But when Chiaki and the teacher get into a fight, he's demoted to the reject class. Chiaki is left to pursue his dream of being a conductor while surrounded by a bunch of loser musicians and one annoying girl, Noda, who has proclaimed herself Chiaki's girlfriend. It doesn't help that Noda, who insists on being called Nodame, lives right next door to him.

5:10: Sora no Woto
Episodes 1-3

After a cease-fire during a long war. A second-class Bugler soldier, Kanata Sorami, is reasigned to her new outpost to a stronghold Fortress in the little city of Seize, where other female soldiers reside to serve in a multi purpose task, 1st: maintain the fortress, 2nd: contribute to the traditions of the city since all are young females and the folklore tales that the young maidens keept a demon under control, and 3rd: also to be prepared in case of a non probable attack due to the isolation of the city.


6:20: Kuroshitsuji (Running Series)
Episodes 7-9

One of the noble families of England - Phantomhive, has a butler, Sebastian Michaels. He has unquestionably perfect knowledge, manners, talent with materials. martial arts and much more. But for some reason, he serves a 12 year old master...

7:30: Break
Hanafuda Koi Koi card game (Featured in the movie Summer Wars)

8:20: Summer Wars
OVA

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a bizarre parallel world to collide with Earth, and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.

10:15: Raffle

Raffle prizes have been generously donated by Wizzywigs (4720 South State Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48108).

10:30: The Slayers: Next
Episodes 1-3

Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia coincidently meet up again and begin to search for the Clair Bible. During their search they run into a mysterious priest named Xelloss who seems to know a thing or two about the passages they're looking for, but he tends to get them into more trouble instead of out of it. Furthermore, they discover that the Monster race has plans of their own, and as it turns out, Lina and Company just might be a big part of their evil intentions.



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Questions or comments? E-mail us at ANIMANIA@UMICH.EDU

You can find us on the web at the URL:
http://www.umichanime.com/

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Animania is a not-for-profit University of Michigan student organization.
We are dedicated to expanding the awareness of the language and
culture of Japan through the art form of Anime (Japanese Animation).

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The Buzz

Japan Lecture Series

Thank you everyone for coming to our Japan Lecture Series we've been hosting every month during break. For those who weren't able to make it, watch this space for updates every month with everything you've missed (mostly).

February: Japanese Valentine's Day
We showed episode 19 of Hime Chan's Ribbon as a precursor to Japanese Valentine's Day. The fansub group that subbed the series is honobono.

We will be updating this space with links to more material from other months soon.

New Decade 2010!!!

Welcome to Michigan 2010! I hope everyone is enjoying the lovely weather we're having. With the bitter memories of the football season behind us, we can now focus on our favorite spring sport: Basketball!

Jokes aside, we hope everyone enjoyed last semester, and we have some big plans for this semester also. We will be continuing our peek into Japanese culture during breaks, along with bringing two new runners this semester: Nodame Cantabile and Kuroshitsuji. We hope to reach a broader audience of anime fans this semester, so we'll be showing a blockbuster anime movie at every screening, so bring your friends!

Welcome to Fall Semester 2009!

The school year has started, and we're ready to show more anime! Last year had a lot of changes, with a change of power, a new website, and a new football coach (xP).

We start this year with a new president (Steve Heise), and a major overhaul in the way we do things around here. We're happy to have new staff members, and we welcome the return of a few of our illustrious alumni. Our runners this semester are K-ON! and Pandora Hearts. Be on the lookout for CJN XVI, coming in November. We have a lot of things planned, so come back and check the calendar, read our announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter for the most up-to-date information about our screenings and events. We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay with us!

Summer!!

One user in our community asked if we were still showing anime during the summer. Well, here is our answer...

Of course! Just check out our calendar to the right side, read announcements in our community, or simply subscribe to our newsletter to get up-to-date information on the times and locations! Animania continues to show totally free monthly screenings at the Modern Language Building. It is no wonder why we're the best club on campus to get together and meet other anime fanatics like yourself!

This summer's screenings are on July 11 and August 22.

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